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NASA Five Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses (532 words) |
 | -1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE) |
 | During the 50 century period -1999 to 3000 (i.e.: 2000 BCE to 3000 CE), Earth experiences 12186 lunar eclipses as follows: |
 | The eclipses during this period are arranged into 100 year long tables where each table includes data described as follows. |
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History of Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5955 words) |
 | According to the Buddhist tradition, the historical Buddha Siddharta Gautama was born to the Shakya clan, at the beginning of the Magadha period (546–324 BCE), in the plains of Lumbini, Southern Nepal. |
 | In particular, after 250 BCE, the Sarvastivadin (who had been rejected by the 3rd council, according to the Theravada tradition) and the Dharmaguptaka schools became quite influential in northwestern India and Central Asia, up to the time of the Kushan Empire in the first centuries of the common era. |
 | The Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius I invaded India in 180 BCE as far as Pataliputra, establishing an Indo-Greek kingdom that was to last in various part of northern India until the end of the 1st century BCE. |